Directory > Science > Social Sciences > Language and Linguistics > Natural Languages > Sign Languages > Nicaraguan Sign Language A Linguistic Big Bang A journalist interviews some of the deaf Nicaraguan school children who use a new sign language they invented on their own. From the New York Times Magazine. http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/19991024mag-sign-language.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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SignWriting in Nicaragua Covers the written representation of the signed language, the spread of literacy, and first-person reports from those teaching deaf children to read and write their native signed language. http://www.signwriting.org/nicaragua/nicaragua.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Talking Hands Profile of Judy and James Shepard-Kegl, who are bringing the sign language developed on Nicaragua's Pacific coast to uneducated deaf people in isolated communities on the Atlantic coast. http://cgi-user.brown.edu/Administration/Brown_Alumni_Magazine/98/3-98/features/portrait.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Nicaraguan Sign Language Projects, Inc. University of Maine research effort. Descriptions of study projects, schools at Bluefields and Condega, publications list, and staff resumes. http://www.unet.maine.edu/courses/NSLP/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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A Language at Its Genesis Article on the birth of Nicaraguan Sign Language, and researcher Judy Kegl's work to document the process. http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/nuggets/028/nugget.htm Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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